Physics HL

Expert's Insight: Three named credits in PHYS_V 100 plus three unassigned first-year PHYS_V credits, and the exempted course now runs under a different number. The exemption named in the award, PHYS_V 101, is legacy wording: UBC Physics treats it today as exemption from or credit for the lecture-only PHYS_V 131, and ...

Expert's Insight: IB Physics HL can be a real advantage at the University of Alberta, but only if you treat it as strategic placement, not a free pass to skip everything. The credit you receive is generous (two full courses), but the value depends entirely on which physics stream your program actually uses. IB Physic...

Expert's Insight: This is a named course equivalency, not generic credit: exemptions from both PHYS 101 and PHYS 102 across essentially every faculty, including Engineering; B.Sc.Arch. receives PHYS 101 only. McGill Science books IB results as advanced standing with course exemptions, and all advanced credentials com...

Expert's Insight: For physics, engineering and other physical sciences this is a strong award: PHY 1121 and PHY 1122 are the two-term Fundamentals of Physics sequence uOttawa describes as intended primarily for students in the physical sciences and engineering, and both are compulsory in the Honours BSc Physics progr...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL earns two named course equivalencies at USask, not generic junior credit. The award of PHYS 115.3 and PHYS 117.3 is editorially significant: both are specific, named first-year courses rather than unspecified physics credit, which means they appear on your transcript with...

Expert's Insight: All three U of T campuses award 1.0 credit for Physics HL at a 5, but the three awards are not worth the same thing, and one U of T division awards nothing at all. Start with who is covered. This award belongs to the Faculty of Arts & Science at St. George, to U of T Mississauga, and to U of T S...

Expert's Insight: Unlike McMaster's History and Computer Science awards, this one carries real course codes. PHYSICS 1A03 and PHYSICS 1AA3 are named first-year courses, so the credit can satisfy requirements that name them and unlocks courses listing 1A03 as a prerequisite. There is an antirequisite trap. Holding PHY...

Expert's Insight: Unlike McMaster's History and Computer Science awards, this one carries real course codes. PHYSICS 1A03 and PHYSICS 1AA3 are named first-year courses, so the credit can satisfy requirements that name them and unlocks courses listing 1A03 as a prerequisite. There is an antirequisite trap. Holding PHY...

Expert's Insight: This award lands in Windsor’s algebra-based life-sciences physics stream, and how far it goes depends on your exact degree plan. Biology, Biomedical Sciences, the general BSc, and Forensic Science (outside the Forensic Chemistry concentration) all list the PHYS-1300 and PHYS-1310 pair in their...

Expert's Insight: Waterloo's official IB transfer credit table lists Physics at Higher Level as No transfer credit, so a Higher Level result earns no course credit here at any score. It can still meet an admission or program prerequisite where Physics is required, but it does not convert into first-year Waterloo phys...

Expert's Insight: IB Physics HL earns Western’s calculus-based enriched physics sequence, not a generic credit. The award maps directly to Physics 1501A and Physics 1502B. The Western Academic Calendar notes this pair “is a suitable prerequisite for all modules in the Faculty of Science, for all modules o...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Guelph awards Physics HL (5+) as PHYS*9110, a generic (unspecified) transfer credit rather than a named equivalency to any first-year Guelph physics course. The leading “9” in the course code signals a placeholder, which shapes how the credit behaves on your transcript and ...

Expert's Insight: Two separate 3.0-credit course exclusions at York: SC/PHYS 1411 Physics Fundamentals 1 and SC/PHYS 1412 Physics Fundamentals 2. Together they cover a calculus-based survey of mechanics, waves, electricity and magnetism, optics, and introductory modern physics, with laboratory hours integrated into b...

Expert's Insight: Queen's awards PHYS 117 for IB Physics HL with a score of 5 or higher. Health Sciences awards PHYS 117 at 3.0 units. Arts and Science, Computing, Nursing and Smith Commerce award 6.0 units. Smith Engineering awards no credit. PHYS 117 is a full-year, algebra-based introductory physics course and sat...

Expert's Insight: Queen's awards PHYS 117 for IB Physics HL with a score of 5 or higher. Health Sciences awards PHYS 117 at 3.0 units. Arts and Science, Computing, Nursing and Smith Commerce award 6.0 units. Smith Engineering awards no credit. PHYS 117 is a full-year, algebra-based introductory physics course and sat...

Expert's Insight: Smith Engineering awards no transfer credit for IB Physics HL. It is listed as "No Credit" in the Engineering table, and Engineering confines IB credit to Complementary Studies subjects with a maximum of 6.0 units, so a strong science or maths result earns nothing toward an Engineering degree. Other...

Expert's Insight: IB Physics HL earns PHYS 117 (6.0 units) in Arts, Science, Commerce, and Nursing, but this is the algebra-based introductory sequence, not the calculus-based PHYS 104 or PHYS 106 that a Physics degree Plan actually requires. Smith Engineering students get no credit whatsoever. PHYS 117 is the year-l...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take SFU grants PHYS 101 (3) and PHYS 102 (3) for IB Physics HL — 6 credits total, typically carrying Q/B-Sci designations. This clears the entire introductory physics sequence for life sciences students and satisfies both a quantitative and breadth-science requirement toward SFU's WQ...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL earns a real, named credit at UVic, but the specific courses awarded are the algebra-based, life sciences physics stream, not the calculus-based sequence required by most science and engineering programs. With a score of 6 or higher, UVic's official IB Transfer Guide gran...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL yields a full two-course first-year physics sequence used across many UCalgary science programs, not a single course, but two. A score of 5 or higher earns named credit for both PHYS 221 (Mechanics) and PHYS 223 (Electromagnetism and Thermal Physics) , 3 units each, 6 uni...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take Dalhousie's IB transfer credit table awards Physics 1280.03 and Physics 1290.03 for IB Physics HL with a score of 5 or higher. That is a two-course, 6-credit-hour award covering Dalhousie's first-year introductory physics package. For context, the standard first-year physics path for s...

Expert's Insight: Carleton awards IB Physics HL (minimum score 5) as PHYS 1107 (0.5) and PHYS 1108 (0.5), per the official IB advanced-standing table. The sharper question for STEM-bound students is whether those two awarded courses match what your degree actually requires, because PHYS 1107 and PHYS 1108 sit in a di...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take IB Physics HL with a minimum score of 4 is awarded as Physics 1020 plus Physics 1021 (six credit hours), the algebra-based first-year sequence at Memorial (official IB transfer credit chart). The award is automatic once the IB transcript is received; what matters is whether the algebra...

Expert's Insight: Expert's Take A score of 4 on IB Physics HL earns 6 credit hours at UM as the named pair PHYS 1020 and PHYS 1030 (the General Physics sequence, described in the catalog as using "little math and no calculus"). SL Physics is not on UM's chart and earns no credit. Per UM's Senate-approved Transference...

Expert's Insight: At Concordia the value of this credit depends on your program. Concordia's IB Diploma statement admits applicants to the Extended Credit Program and awards Physics HL transfer credit toward it, but that credit reduces what you still have to complete only where Concordia assigns it to a requirement o...

Expert's Insight: IB Physics HL has no row in TMU's IB Higher Levels chart, but TMU states those charts are guides and are not comprehensive, so absence from the table is not a refusal. TMU's policy is that IB Higher Levels with grades of 5 or higher may be considered for transfer credit on an individual basis, so a ...

Expert's Insight: UNB grants transfer credit for Physics HL, but only at a 6 or 7. Physics is the single exception on UNB's IB transfer-credit table: every other listed subject, including Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics, earns credit at a 5, so a 5 in Physics HL earns nothing here even though a 5 in HL Chemistry ...

Expert's Insight: A Higher Level Physics result of 5 or higher is considered for transfer credit at Ontario Tech. Because Ontario Tech does not publish a subject-by-subject IB equivalency table, whether it lands as a named course equivalent or as unspecified elective credit, and how many credit hours it carries, is d...

Expert's Insight: This is a named two-course equivalency for the University of Regina's complete first-year General Physics sequence, not unspecified or elective credit. The academic calendar frames the award conditionally: qualifying higher-level IB courses "may be granted transfer credit", and the listing becomes o...

Expert's Insight: Lakehead does not award transfer credit for IB Physics HL. The university grants advanced standing for a defined list of HL subjects completed with a score of 5 or better, but Physics HL does not appear anywhere on the official IB equivalency table, so no score earns credit here. The IB page lists n...